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Boron Contamination in Mediterranean Groundwater
More than 10 percent of water
resources in the Mediterranean basin have boron levels that exceed E.U.
standards for drinking water. Understanding the source of the problem
will help countries better manage their groundwater and, in some cases,
overcome conflict.
Avner Vengosh et al.
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Western
Aquifers Under Stress
Throughout the United States,
people are increasingly turning to groundwater resources. Nowhere is
that more true than in the West, where aquifers are rapidly dwindling.
Geotimes Staff
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Groundwater aquifers are an important source
of drinking and irrigation water around the world — particularly in the desert.
Here, Zheng-Tian Lu, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, inspects
an artesian well at Farafra Oasis, in the Western Desert of Egypt. Lu led a team
that dated the oldest water in the Nubian aquifer, a vast expanse of groundwater
below the Sahara Desert. See story and
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